A lower bound on the number of mechanisms for discriminating fourth and higher order spatial correlations.

Research on single striate cortical neurons has often concentrated on their responses to stimuli defined by two-point correlations. Texture discrimination studies using a relatively small palette of isotrigon textures have indicated that we are sensitive to third and higher-order spatial correlations. To further evaluate the underlying mechanisms of texture discrimination subjects discriminated random binary noise patterns from ten new isotrigon texture types.